
Mix Rescue: Blue Lit Moon
If you’re the musician and the engineer, it’s easy to focus too closely on your own instrument, and not enough on the mix...
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If you’re the musician and the engineer, it’s easy to focus too closely on your own instrument, and not enough on the mix...
These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS June 2011.

• Chase & Status 'Blind Faith' • Jessie J 'Price Tag' • David Guetta 'Who's That Chick'

There’s no more revered name in the history of synthesis than Moog, and the Voyager XL aims to cement their reputation for top‑flight instruments. Is this the Rolls Royce of the synthesizer world?

Rain are quick off the mark with a model featuring the latest ‘Sandy Bridge’ CPU — and the results are rather impressive...

No‑one makes demos any more — it’s just that any music we make is treated like a demo.

When is a studio not a studio? When it’s a venue, a nightclub, or a yogic meditation centre... We talk to some recording facility owners who’ve found more diverse ways of using their space.


Effects and processors don’t get much more simple than Waves’ new OneKnob range. But is this a case of one knob to rule them all, or are these plug‑ins simply nobbled?


The Sandy saga has been taking up column space for several months now — so how long should you wait before crossing that bridge?

Mixing the benefits of ribbon smoothness and condenser flexibility, Pearl show us that it really is hip to be, erm... rectangular.


Is this a versatile mic that shines out as a bargain for the home‑studio recordist — or is it as light on features as it is on the pocket?

Backing vocals sound better when they’re perfectly in time — if yours aren’t, Pro Tools can help you fix them.

I'd like to bite the bullet and buy a really good stand-alone recorder. I'd like it to be capable of recording eight to 12...

I've wanted to try out Pro Tools for years, but I've never been able to get around to it. One of the things that has stopped...

Although I have been producing for a while, I still don't know exactly what release setting I should be using, especially on a...

I mix using a combination of headphones and monitors (depending on the time of day!) and I'm concerned about the potential...

I value SOS's opinion very highly and, when I wanted to add a versatile, quality compressor to my arsenal, I thought about the...